"West Tweaks East" Painting

Skuja Braden is 1+1 = 3. Who is Skuja Braden? The answer is no-one, nobody, no one specific person but, in fact, two people working together as two on one. What does it mean for 2 to work as 1? Skuja Braden is simultaneously a fictitious person, noted artist, and a bandit and thief who has stolen the individual identities of artist Ingūna Skuja (from Latvia) and artist Melissa Braden (from California). Ingūna Skuja exists and Melissa Braden exists but Skuja Braden does not exist, however in the art world it is literally Skuja Braden who exists while Ingūna Skuja and Melissa Braden individually take on secondary roles of authorial existence. Skuja Braden, is the pseudonym made up of both artists last names and the signatures marking all their collaborative works. Skuja Braden is the third artist to have grown out of their collaboration. Not only does this third artist have a mind of its own, it also rests or fills up a third position arising from the shared efforts of these two artist. Thus Skuja Braden is 1+1=3. Skuja Braden's work can be found in private collections and museums in Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, United Kingdom, and throughout the United States.